Optimus Plugin: Compress Images in WordPress Automatically

The most important things when it comes to efficiency and usability of websites is the fact how slow or fast its pages load. The factor that plays a big role in loading speed of pages of WordPress blogs is the size of the images. If you upload a lot of photos on your websites then this thing can affect the loading speed of pages. This is obviously something you don’t want as this can annoy the visitors. In this case a really cool WordPress plugin known as Optimus can come in handy as it automatically compresses the size of the uploaded media on WordPress. It has the ability of reducing the size of photos up to 50 %, but keeps the quality of photo the same.  This tool is an efficient solution for photo size compression.

The basic functionality of this plugin is that on uploading the photos to the library it sends its URL to the remote Optimus server which reads the photo and processes it in an optimized form. The photos with reduced sizes are then stored.

It has many benefits for instance it reduces the size of photos but keeps the quality, you don’t need to adjust anything, it enhances the time of page loading, and best of all it is free and does not have any ads.

This plugin works best when photos are in JPEG format.

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